This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected commit­tee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extrav­agant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most im­portant liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.

This decision is nothing less than a judicial revolution. It represents a disaster for our Constitution, our common Republic, and our children.

The most salient casualty today is our Constitution’s cardinal principle of popular self-government. The people made the Constitution and vested certain limited legislative powers in a Congress to be chosen by the people. Further, the people reserved all other legislative powers to the states, each of which was guaranteed, though the Republican Guarantee Clause, a popular form of government. The duty to safeguard these popular governments was imposed on the whole “United States” – including the judicial officers thereof.

But today, a majority of the Justices abdicated from this duty. Instead, the Court engaged in a naked usurpation of the people’s authority to govern themselves.

[I]t shows that the same-sex marriage movement is interested in a great deal more than just the freedom to form marital unions. It is also interested, quite keenly, in punishing dissenters. But the ambitions of the movement go further than that, even. It’s about revisiting legal notions of freedom of speech and association, constitutional protections for religious freedom, and cultural norms concerning the family. And most Americans are only just realizing that these are the societal compacts that have been pried open for negotiation.

Ted Cruz is advocating for an amendment to the Constitution that would subject the justices of the Supreme Court to periodic judicial-retention elections like those used in many states. I can see how you’d arrive at this position if you concluded that the justices are really political appointees, and based on the last two days’ worth of Supreme Court rulings that’s a reasonable conclusion. I think I’d go the simpler route and term limit all federal judges.

Governor Jindal not only stands accused of acting white, but of having an official portrait that is literally too white. Mockers on Twitter abuse him under the hash-tag #BobbyJindalIsSoWhite. The governor, asked about the portrait controversy, gave a masterly performance: “You mean I’m not white?” he asked, innocently. “I’m shocked at this revelation.”